Naturally, this approach was cause for consternation among those of a more conventionally Marxist orientation. Colin Sparks complained that the demotion of class from its position as the “ultimate cause” and source of final determinations was a “crippling incapacity” of the more populist forms of Cultural Studies. 49 However, far from being unaware of this danger, in a later interview (1996) Stuart explicitly bemoaned the fact that class had subsequently fallen off the agenda of Cultural Studies. As he put it, “In the early days, perhaps we spoke too much about the working class and subcultures. Now, nobody talks about that at all: they talk about myself, my mother, my father, my friends, and that is a very narrow experience in relation to classes.” 50 Of course, for Stuart, any return to the question of class could not simply go back to the classical Marxist perspective that Sparks invoked; it needed to be handled so as to articulate the analysis of social classes, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nation and global capital, into a forceful explanatory framework adequate for the analysis of our contemporary situation.